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Quote by Craig Owens

“The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.”

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Craig Owens

Craig Owens is an American musician born on August 26, 1984. He is known for his unique musical style and talented performances. Owens has a rich experience in the music industry, having participated in various music projects as a lead vocalist and lyricist. more

“[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life - that photography could deliver you that life.”

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Author:Max Pam

“I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.”

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Author:Max Pam

“Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.”

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Author:Max Pam

“It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.”

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Author:Tod Papageorge